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Ohio Const Art 3 revised.jpg
Excerpt from the Ohio Constitution, Article VIII, Section 3, providing for religious freedom in Ohio, but insinuating that all Ohioans should have religion and should worship the “Almighty God.”

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Ohio’s controversial motto “With God All Things Are Possible,” a quote from the New Testament, was established in 1959 and survived a federal constitutional challenge in 2001. It remains a symbol of the Christian Church’s influence on the Ohio…

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This map shows undeveloped parts of Ohio in 1785 and sections numbered after the Land Ordinance of 1785.

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In the interior lobby of the Trinity United Church of Christ stands the original facade of the church.

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Photo taken for a "Rep. for Frick," of the original Old Main Building. Presumably, this is one of the photos that encouraged Henry Clay Frick to donate money to build a library for the new, Christian school.

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Dollar Day sales were a chaotic and well remembered event in the store’s history.

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D.L. Freedlander would have been on a similar wagon to this when he first set his sights on Wooster and decided to establish a store.

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Andrew Carnegie wrote personally to President Holden once he was informed that the University met his requirements. He pledged to follow through by paying $100,000 and said his cashier would send the check.

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2012 Daily Record photograph of the Bogner Construction Company dismantling the original Second Baptist building for storage

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Otto Bardon served in the 102nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. he was captured by the Confederates along with a large portion of his regiment and sent to a prison camp at Cahaba, Alabama. Upon his release he survived the Sultana…

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Painting of August Imgard, the man credited with bringing the Christmas Tree to Wooster. For many years, local legend suggested that he was the first to bring the Christmas tree to America.

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1s 2-10-0 steam locomotive prepares to leave the Pennsylvania Railroad docks at Cleveland with a trainload of iron ore in May, 1943. United States Office of War Information photo.

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Photograph of the DiGiacomo building.

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Photograph of the DiGiacomo family.

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Photograph of Incoronata and Joseph DiGiacomo found in Joseph DiGiacomo's biographical section in Dominic Iannarelli's A Touch of Italy in Wooster.

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Photograph of Italian Society Citizenship Class of 1939

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Photograph of the Town Hall constructed by the Italian Society in 1910.

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Photograph of the Lamplighters Social Club stand at the fair in 1948.

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Photograph of the Lamplighters Social Club.

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Photograph of Massaro Avenue, taken in the "East End" neighborhood.

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Photograph depicting one of Rubbermaid's first products, a green rubber dustpan, which James Caldwell developed in 1932, and began manufacturing with Wooster Rubber Company in 1934

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Photograph of St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception Church. Taken from Beall Ave.

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Photograph of the Daily Record offices at 212 E. Liberty St.

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A reunion of the 120th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, held at the Van Nest home in Wooster.

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Battle flags, a drum, and a bugle from the 16th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in which men from Wayne County served. This scene is from the old Memorial Hall on S. Buckeye Street.

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Photograph of Albert Dix, owner of the Wooster Republican and later the Wooster Daily Record. Appeared in the Wooster Daily Record September 8, 1953 in a spread featuring a behind-the-scenes look at the newspaper.

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Students, faculty, and trustees paid for the monument that paid tribute to both sisters’ accomplishments and contributions to the University.

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This is a photgraph of Aquila Wiley, who served as a colonel with the 41st Ohio duirng the war and lost his leg during the Battle of Missionary Ridge

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Photograph of August Imgard, the man credited with bringing the Christmas Tree to Wooster. For many years, Wooster legend persisted that he brought the Christmas tree to the United States.
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